44!

I wakened at 4:00 AM thinking of many things I had to do, none of which could not have waited until morning. But I knew I had better get up and do them if I ever wanted to get back to sleep. I had to send three e-mails and inventory the box of supplies that I received from AARP for next week’s class. Everything was fine and sleep returned at 5. The problem was that I drowsed through the alarm and much of the radio broadcast that follows. At about 7:55 I remembered I had signed up to play golf this morning and was supposed to pay at 7:30. I rushed around and found I could go to the course and join the final group to tee off. I did rush to find out that I was put into the first group and had to rush to the tee. I started quite well, getting a bogey on hole one and a par on hole two. (This is a par three course.) I played fairly well and finished with a 44. I think I scored a 43 or 41 previously this year so I was happy. I lost one ball in the water but found another in different water so I came out even. I have been given many balls this past year so I was not as excited as I would have been in years past. I stopped at Ruth Muller’s, Ardella Dickerson’s and Iverson’s on the way home. Ruth does not have to move, Ardella does but was not home for me to offer our help (I left a note) and Lionell is having some sort of surgery for the aneurism in his leg tomorrow. He is going to Renaissance so they will pick him up and return him as they did us when we had our big “C” procedure. I came home in time for the lovely lunch of salad and meatloaf prepared by my lovely sweetheart. She was then off to the grocery to get some supplies for the salad lunch tomorrow afternoon and the Bible study tomorrow evening. I stayed here and played on the computer and showered since I had not had time to do that this morning. We were talking earlier today and were somewhat marveled that we will likely not have any real winter this year. February is generally the beginning of spring here and it is now mid-February. We had a couple of “cold” snaps (the “” are for northern readers) earlier but nothing like last year. I still don’t know how we earned a $200 electric bill last month. I did take time to read the new sports publication from Purdue. I just don’t smell a revival of the football program in the recruits, nor the coaching replacements. Something is wrong that Purdue can’t become a national power. Winter can’t be the only reason since OSU, MI, and PSU seem to manage. I learned this morning that our class reunion will likely not be until June 18. We will not hang around IN until then for that. We will file our taxes and then go to NC. We can always return to IN during the summer. I went to the office to get the safety colored jackets to give to the parking volunteers for tomorrow morning. There will be no sleeping in tomorrow. There will be many hundreds of people coming and going for the benefit breakfast. I called Bonny and Joe to see if they wanted to join us for pizza at Pizza Hut. Evelyn has a craving for pizza every once in a while and will only reluctantly accept something other than Pizza Hut. She does really like our son-in-law Tom’s pizza and stromboli too but he is not here. So it was off to the Hut. We enjoyed a large Super Supreme and an order of cinnamon bread sticks. We also enjoyed a long visit, most of which was centered around explaining the Amish lifestyle. We always enjoy being with them. To bed to rise earlier than usual.